Mona Awad Reihenfolge der Bücher

From the acclaimed author of Bunny comes a gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death leads her on a perilous quest for youth and beauty. Belle has long been obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. After her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle returns to Southern California to confront her mother’s substantial debts and unresolved questions surrounding her death. The situation intensifies when a mysterious woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about Noelle's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. Drawn by a pair of red shoes, Belle enters La Maison de Meduse, the lavish, cult-like spa her mother frequented. There, she uncovers the terrifying truth behind her obsession with the mirror and the dark depths that lie beyond its surface. This surreal journey blends elements of Snow White and Eyes Wide Shut, delving into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complex bond between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, the narrative critiques the beauty industry's cult-like nature and the dangers of internalizing its relentless gaze, reflecting on mortality and our fixation with appearances.

Die Autorin Awad wird für ihre kreative und einfallsreiche Schreibweise gelobt, die sie zu einer der herausragendsten Stimmen der zeitgenössischen Literatur macht. Ihre Werke zeichnen sich durch einzigartige Perspektiven und tiefgründige Themen aus, die Leser fesseln und zum Nachdenken anregen. Die Kombination aus innovativen Erzähltechniken und eindringlichen Charakteren hebt ihre Literatur hervor und lässt sie in der heutigen Literaturszene herausstechen.

Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as "no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius," Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All's Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.[Bokinfo]

In diesem Werk von Margaret Atwood wird die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Tier auf eine innovative Weise beleuchtet. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich durch die Perspektive eines charmanten und einfallsreichen Kaninchens, das in einer Welt voller Herausforderungen und menschlicher Absurditäten seinen Platz sucht. Mit scharfer Beobachtungsgabe und einem Hauch von Humor thematisiert Atwood die Komplexität von Identität und die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit. Die Erzählung regt zum Nachdenken über die Natur des Lebens und die Verbindung zwischen allen Lebewesen an.

Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.